Vanessa Schrum

Vanessa is a partner and Group Head of the Private Client & Trusts Practice group in Bermuda. She first qualified as a solicitor in the UK and is admitted to the bars of Bermuda and the BVI. This month Vanessa celebrates 20 years at Appleby. Vanessa has extensive experience on a wide range of trust and estate planning matters including the use of Bermuda private and commercial trust structures, PTCs, the administration of complex and large estates and all areas of probate and equity matters in Bermuda. She drafts and reviews all forms of trusts and ancillary documentation, wills, enduring powers of attorney and other estate planning documents and is responsible for general practice within the Private Client & Trusts team. She is a member of STEP, ITPA and the Bermuda trusts law reform committee. Vanessa has been awarded professional accolades throughout her career. She is most recently recognised in Chambers Global 2018 High Net Worth guide as a 'notable practitioner' and named on the Citywealth IFC Power Women Top 200 list, Expert Guide's Women in Business Law 2018 and The International Who's Who of Private Client Lawyers 2018.